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News from the High Plains Department of Physics & Astronomy Greetings Alumni & Friends, February 2014 Physics & Astronomy at 7200’ is alive and kicking. The enclosed plot shows how News from the our student population has seen significant growth over the past decade to a present total of 115, including 38 graduate students (see also the Sputnik-era spike!). This High Plains growth has gone hand-in-hand with the University’s decision to recommit to physics. Our astronomy program now has expertise in star formation, planetary formation, galaxies, quasars, instrumentation, and cosmology. UW physicists work on a wide array of areas in condensed matter physics and biophysics. Much of the focus has been on developing and understanding nanostructures geared toward efficient energy transportation and conversion (e.g., solar cells). Our physics faculty have also been working with the departments of Chemistry, Chemical & Petroleum Engineering, and Mechanical Engineering to develop a cross-college, interdisciplinary Materials Science and Engineering program. This program allows students to take courses from multiple departments, carry out collaborative research, and ultimately pursue a terminal degree in their home departments with a concentration in Materials Science. In terms of infrastructure, our program is almost unrecognizable from where it stood just a few years ago. We now have a first-class nano-fabrication and characterization lab that includes key pieces of equipment such as an electron-beam evaporator, X-ray diffractometer, reactive ion etcher, chemical vapor deposition systems, mask aligner, etc. Our newest faculty member, TeYu Chien, is building up a lab centered around Spring Graduates a state-of-the-art scanning tunneling microscope. Our observatory WIRO is also continuing to see upgrades. The control system and internet connection for our telescope at WIRO have been completely revamped, making the facility far more reliable. A new large-format optical camera will come online later this year. Three new courses were offered last year: Prof. Myers developed a graduate course on how to “mine” large astronomical data surveys and Prof. Jang-Condell developed a new graduate course on exoplanets. Prof. Pierce developed a new course in electronics and digital instrumentation involving arduino microcontrollers. Students designed several interesting final projects, including a theremin, a dirigible, a hovercraft, and a virtual keyboard enabled by a Wii remote sensor. Thanks to a gift of $875k from the Windy Ridge Foundation, we are planning for a Historical student numbers Summer 2014 make-over of our planetarium. Besides a fancy new digital projector, we’ll upgrade the dome, flooring, lighting, audio, seating, and entryway. Finally, we had several fun vidoes made about our program, mostly for the purposes of recruiting new students. You can check them out on our department homepage. COLLEGE OF ARTS & SCIENCES Department of Physics & Astronomy All the best, (307) 766-6150 Danny Dale [email protected] Department Head UWYO.EDU/PHYSICS NEW IN THE DEPARTMENT Dr. TeYu Chien Professor TeYu Chien received his Ph. D degree in physics from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2009. He worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Argonne National Laboratory (2009-2011) and at Northwestern University (2011-2013) before he arrived in Laramie in 2013. His research area is focused on electronic properties and many-body effects of low-dimensional materials and devices, such as metal surfaces, interfaces of complex oxide systems and interfaces in next generation solar cell devices. The goals are to understand fundamental physics in these low-dimensional environments and to seek out novel applications. Beth Clement Beth Clement joined the Physics & Astronomy department as an Office Associate in August, 2013. She spent the previous 10 years at a financial planning office in Denver -fol lowing her graduation from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs with a degree in Marketing. When not in the office, Beth enjoys traveling, playing volleyball, spending time with her family and friends, cheering on the Broncos, and trying to get her puppy to stop destroying her yard. She was recently engaged to UW chemist Brian Leonard and is having fun planning their upcoming wedding. We welcomed quite a few new graduate students this year, from both near and far. (pictured from left to right) Jyoti Pandey - U. Wyoming, Nepal Uma Poudyal - Tribhuvan U., Nepal Tika Neupane - Tribhuvan U., Nepal Ravi Neupane - Tribhuvan U., Nepal Subash Kattel - Tribhuvan U., Nepal Dylan Kloster - W. Washington David Kasper - U. Minnesota Joseph Gutierrez - Adamson U., Philippines (not pictured) Michelle Mason - UC Berkeley Cody Minns - Indiana U. Chris Garcia 2 STUDENT PROFILES Beau Yeik I was fortunate to have the opportunity to work with Dr. Zhang and Dr. Lowell Burnett (UW 1970 Physics Ph.D.) at Quasar Federal Systems in San Diego. Several years back they created passive sensors that utilize E and B fields, and are currently exploring biological, geological, and meteorological applications. I spent the first half of the summer performing experiments to determine the boundaries of a metal detection portals. The experiments entailed ascertaining the effects of an object’s size, composition and velocity as it passed through Sabit Horoz the portal. I also performed market research on current metal detection portals and stray voltage detection, as well as their Sabit is studying synthesis of CdSe Quantum Dots by laser ablation market viability. of a bulk target in water using a nanosecond pulsed laser. The as-prepared CdSe QDs were subsequently used to make ligand- I then spent time building simple circuit boards but soon free QD-sensitized ZnO nanowire solar cells. The preparation, moved on to the detection of electrical fields in thunderstorms. photoluminescent properties and device performance of the QDs To achieve the latter, we mounted electrical sensors onto and cells were investigated and analyzed. The performance of the a “drone” or Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). I made cells suggests promising potential of this liquid-based synthesis minor modifications to their on-board sensors (CPUs, GPS, method for QD-sensitized photovoltaic solar cells. antennae) to achieve acceptable reception, and worked on the data collection infrastructure. A highlight of the summer experience was traveling to Socorro, New Mexico to test the UAVs in an actual thunderstorm. After some preliminary tests, we conducted two flights in and near a thunderstorm. The summer wrapped with analysis of the data taken in New Mexico. The experience, burritos, my mentors, and the general platform of the company itself were exceptional. Scott Maloney Scott’s research involves the study of semiconducting metal- oxide nanowires and their use as transistors and active layers in solar cells. Nanowires have many interesting properties that make them good candidates for high-efficiency electronic devices. They are single crystal structures with a high electron diffusion length, and their linearity allows current to transfer more directly than it would in a bulk material. They are also cheaper (i.e. require less energy) to make than bulk pure crystalline silicon. His group can study the properties of these wires by printing microscopic Beau (far left) with his San Diego crew contacts over them using photolithography. 3 ALUMNI NEWS Infrared Explorer (WIRE). After WIRE malfunctioned upon enter- ing Earth-orbit, David took his extensive infrared instrumentation David Klassen (Ph.D. 1993) After graduating from UW I had a experience obtained at UW and joined the infrared instrumenta- one-year post-doc at Cornell University working with Jim Bell. I tion group at UF where he designed the spectroscopic modes for the then accepted a tenure-track faculty position in Physics & Astron- mid-infrared instruments T-ReCS (Gemini) and CanariCam (GTC). omy at Rowan University in Glassboro, NJ. Rowan is a compre- David left for the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute at Caltech in hensive state school that had just recently started up an engineering 2003; since arriving at Caltech, David has been involved in various program and was expanding its science faculty in support of that. I exoplanet searches from both the ground and space and is currently have continued my planetary science research, both ground-based a science team member of both the CoRoT and Kepler exoplanet and working with MRO spacecraft data, as well as teaching a multi- missions. tude of undergraduate courses. For the past several years I have been Brannon McCullough (B.S. 2004) entered the Biological and the Associate Chair of the department, and this year was promoted to Biomedical Science PhD program at Yale University in 2005 full professor. In 2000 I married Mary Ann Hickman, another UW and in 2008 he received an MPhil. in Molecular Biophysics and grad, who had accepted a position at nearby Swarthmore College and Biochemistry. He has been investigating the mechanics of how we enjoy living in the outskirts of historic Philadelphia. When not actin filaments are severed by cofilin, a process that is central to cell working we enjoy traveling (usually tacking a week or so onto the motility. He is finishing his dissertation research and will defend beginning or end of the summer American Association of Physics early next year. Brannon will then start a postdoc at the University Teachers conference), working in the garden, and I’ve lately taken up of Minnesota to investigate the mechanochemistry of brain cancer the grand puzzle of genealogy. cell motility and migration by testing computational models with David Ciardi (Ph.D. 1997) is currently an Associate Research Scien- quantitative microscopy experiments. tist at the NASA Exoplanet Science Institute located at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, CA. After UW, David went to Jeff Sudol (Ph.D. 2000) I am a tenured, assistant professor in the the University of Florida in 1998 as a postdoctoral scholar work- Department of Physics at West Chester University. I am currently ing with Elizabeth Lada on star formation utilizing the Wide-Field modeling the dynamical evolution of the HR 8799 planetary system.
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